What is Web Hosting?

Web Hosting is a service which allows an individual's (or companies) website to be accessed throughout the World Wide Web.

The World Wide Web is a collection of many thousand Servers (large computers connected to the internet), when you access a website through your PC you are in fact viewing a file located on one of these servers.

So a Web Host is a company which provides users space on their website. They also provide assistance with DNS (nameservers) so that when a user types the users' domain the correct website is displayed.

A Web Host will also provide the users with email access, users can have their email sent and received from their domain name using the Web Hosts' server as the email 'sorting office'.

Of course many different Web Hosts do much more than simply put your files on the web, SolarHost are just one company which offers services such as Visitor Statistics, Self Installing Scripts, Mailing Lists, Live Server Monitoring, Web Mail. Different hosts offer different types of hosting, such as Windows based hosting or Linux based hosting, for many users there is very little difference, but more experienced users often need to check before committing to purchase.